> >I researched this guy and he's real and these are his comments. I love >it. >See further down for his bio. Pam > > Retired Air Force Gen. Richard Hawley, former head of the Air Combat >Command headquarters at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia . >Subject: No more Pearl Harbors General Hawley's Politically Incorrect >Message > > >This Air Force General should have been a Marine. What a magnificent and >insightful view of what this war on terrorism is actually about. Please >read >and pass on as you see fit. > >General Hawley, is a newly retired USAF 4 star general. He commanded the >Air >Combat Command [our front-line fighters and bombers] at Langley AFB, VA. He >is now retired and no longer required to be politically correct. A true >patriot! > >"Since the attack [9-11], I have seen, heard, and read thoughts of such >surpassing stupidity that they must be addressed. You've heard them too. >Here they are: > >1) "We're not good, they're not evil, everything is relative." Listen >carefully: We're good, they're evil, nothing is relative. Say it with me >now >and free yourselves. You see, folks, saying "We're good" doesn't mean, >"We're perfect." Okay? The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the >ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The plain fact is that our country has, with >all our mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be the greatest >beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection in history. If you >need proof, open all the borders on Earth and see what happens. > >2) "Violence only leads to more violence." This one is so stupid you >usually >have to be the president of an Ivy League university to say it. Here's the >truth, which you know in your heads and hearts already: Ineffective, >unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky, half measures >lead >to more violence. However, complete, fully thought through, professional, >well executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see, >afterwards, the other guys are all dead. That's right, dead. Not "on >trial," >not "reeducated," not "nurtured back into the bosom of love." Dead. > >3) "The CIA and the rest of our intelligence community have failed us." For >25 years we have chained our spies like dogs to a stake in the ground, and >now that the house has been robbed, we yell at them for not protecting us. >Starting in the late seventies, under Carter appointee Stansfield Turner, >the giant brains who get these giant ideas decided that the best way to >gather international intelligence was to use spy satellites. "After all, >(they reasoned,)you can see a license plate from 200 miles away." This is >very helpful if you've been attacked by a license plate. Unfortunately, we >were attacked by humans. Finding humans is not possible with satellites. >You >have to use other humans. When we bought all our satellites, we fired all >our humans, and here's the really stupid part. It takes years, decades to >infiltrate new humans into the worst places of the world. You can't just >have a guy who looks like Gary Busey in a Spring Break '93 sweatshirt plop >himself down in a coffee shop in Kabul and say "Hiya, boys. Gee, I sure >would like to meet that bin Laden fella. "Well, you can, but all you'd be >doing is giving the bad guys a story they'll be telling for years. > >4) "These people are poor and helpless, and that's why they're angry at >us." >Uh-huh, and Jeffrey Dahmer's frozen head collection was just a desperate >cry >for help. The terrorists and their backers are richer than Elton John and, >ironically, a good deal less annoying. The poor helpless people, you see, >are the villagers they tortured and murdered to stay in power. Mohammed >Atta, one of the evil scumbags who steered those planes into the killing >grounds is the son of a Cairo surgeon. But you knew this, too. In the >sixties and seventies, all the pinheads marching against the war were >upper-middle-class college kids who grabbed any cause they could think of >to >get out of their final papers and spend more time drinking. It's the same >today. > >5) "Any profiling is racial profiling." Who's killing us here, the >Norwegians? Just days after the attack, the New York Times had an article >saying dozens of extended members of the gazillionaire bin Laden family >living in America were afraid of reprisals and left in a huff, never to >return to studying at Harvard and using too much Drakkar. I'm crushed. >Please come back. Let's all stop singing "We Are the World" for a minute >and >think practically. I don't want to be sitting on the floor in the back of a >plane four seconds away from hitting Mt.Rushmore and turn, grinning, to the >guy next to me to say, "Well, at least we didn't offend them." > >SO HERE'S what I resolve for the New Year: Never to forget our murdered >brothers and sisters. Never to let the relativists get away with their >immoral thinking. After all, no matter what your daughter's political >science professor says, we didn't start this. Have you seen that bumper >sticker that says, "No More Hiroshimas"? I wish I had one that says, "No >More Pearl Harbors." > >GENERAL RICHARD E. HAWLEY > >Retired effective July 1, 1999. > > >Gen. Richard E. Hawley retired as commander of Air Combat Command with >headquarters at Langley Air Force Base, Va. The command organizes, trains, >equips and maintains combat-ready forces for rapid deployment and >employment >while ensuring strategic air defense forces are ready to meet the >challenges >of peacetime air sovereignty and wartime defense. ACC is comprised of 1,050 >aircraft and approximately 103,400 active-duty military members and >civilian >personnel at 27 major installations in the United States, Panama, Iceland >and the Azores. When mobilized, more than 64,400 Air National Guard and Air >Force Reserve members along with 780 aircraft are assigned to ACC. The >command provides nuclear forces for U.S. Strategic Command, theater air >forces for five geographic unified commands (U.S. Atlantic Command, U.S. >Central Command, U.S. Southern Command, U.S. European Command and U.S. >Pacific Command) as well as defense forces for the North American Aerospace >Defense Command. > >The general entered the Air Force in 1964 following graduation from the >U.S. >Air Force Academy. Prior to this assignment, he was commander of U.S. Air >Forces in Europe and Allied Air Forces Central Europe with headquarters at >Ramstein Air Base, Germany. He also commanded an Air Force group, a wing >and >U.S. Forces Japan and 5th Air Force, with headquarters at Yokota Air Base, >Japan. He served as a forward air controller at Pleiku Air Base, South >Vietnam, where he flew 433 combat missions. > > >EDUCATION: > > >1964 Bachelor of science degree, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, >Colo. > >1965 Master of arts degree in economics, Georgetown University, Washington, >D.C. > >1974 Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va. > >1982 Naval War College, Newport, R.I. > >ASSIGNMENTS: > > >1. June 1964 - March 1965, student, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. > >2. March 1965 - September 1966, staff officer, Office of the Deputy Chief >of >Staff for Personnel, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. > >3. September 1966 - September 1967, student, pilot training, Williams Air >Force Base, Ariz. > >4. October 1967 - September 1968, student, F-4C and O-2A training, >Homestead >Air Force Base and Hurlburt Field, Fla. > >5. September 1968 - September 1969, forward air controller, Pleiku Air >Base, >South Vietnam > >6. October 1969 - September 1972, F-4D combat crew member, 36th Tactical >Fighter Wing, Bitburg Air Base, West Germany > >7. September 1972 - June 1973, member, Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in >Europe inspector general team, Wiesbaden Air Base, West Germany > >8. July 1973 - February 1974, student, Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, >Va. > >9. February 1974 - March 1976, operations staff officer, Office of the >Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, >D.C. > >10. March 1976 - September 1977, assistant executive officer to the Air >Force chief of staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. > >11. September 1977 - July 1979, operations officer, 68th Tactical Fighter >Squadron; assistant deputy commander for operations, 347th Tactical Fighter >Wing and commander, 347th Combat Support Group; Moody Air Force Base, Ga. > >12. July 1979 - July 1981, director of operations, 1st Tactical Fighter >Wing, Langley Air Force Base, Va. > >13. July 1981 - July 1982, student, Naval War College, Newport, R.I. > >14. July 1982 - April 1984, vice commander, 313th Air Division, Kadena Air >Base, Japan > >15. April 1984 - March 1986, commander, 18th Tactical Fighter Wing, Kadena >Air Base, Japan > >16. March 1986 - September 1986, special assistant to the commander in >chief, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii > >17. September 1986 - August 1987, vice commander, 7th Air Force, Osan Air >Base, South Korea > >18. August 1987 - August 1989, deputy chief of staff for plans, >Headquarters >Pacific Air Forces, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii > >19. August 1989 - August 1991, director of operations, Office of the Deputy >Chief of Staff, Plans and Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, >Washington, D.C. > >20. August 1991 - November 1993, commander, U.S. Forces Japan and 5th Air >Force, Yokota Air Base, Japan > >21. November 1993 - July 1995, principal deputy, Office of the Assistant >Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Washington, D.C. > >22. July 1995 - April 1996, commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and >commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe, with headquarters at Ramstein >Air Base, Germany > >23. April 1996 - 1999, commander, Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force >Base, Va. > >FLIGHT INFORMATION: > >Rating: Command pilot > >Flight hours: More than 3,000; 438 combat missions > >Aircraft flown: O-2A, A-10, F-4 and F-15 > >MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS: > >Defense Distinguished Service Medal > >Distinguished Service Medal > >Legion of Merit > >Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters > >Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf cluster > >Air Medal with two silver and two bronze oak leaf clusters > >Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster > _________________________________________________________________ Let the advanced features & services of MSN Internet Software maximize your online time. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200363ave/direct/01/